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Kara Rogers
- Kara Rogers is the senior editor of biomedical sciences at Encyclopædia Britannica. She holds a Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology from the University of Arizona.
Rogers writes for various publications on topics ranging from medicine and genetics to animals and nature. She is the author of Out of Nature: Why Drugs from Plants Matter to the Future of Humanity (The University of Arizona Press, 2012) and The Quiet Extinction: Stories of North America's Rare and Threatened Plants (The University of Arizona Press, 2015). Rogers is a member of the National Association of Science Writers.

Annie Dude
- Contributor to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Global Health (2008) whose work for that encyclopedia formed the basis of her contributions to Britannica.

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